Drain batery

I still have a 14% battery drain per day. I have the watch Fenix 7 standard. Now I have the latest updates v. 19.34. I have now turned off accident detection for all activities, so we'll see. Is there a solution?

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Garmin-Laurie 2 months ago in reply to Gil +5 verified

Hello,

Our engineers are investigating battery drain concern with the Pro Fenix 7 series. So if you are having trouble with this, I would love to collect specifics of this concern. For this, I will reach…
Emrergn 2 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie +7

Hi, Fenix 7 pro definitely has the battery drain issue too with 19.34. My consumption without any activity is 2 times more compared to before the FW released with fenix 8.
fredcl01 2 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie +6

To my feeling is the battery drain higher since the update to 19.34. The battery drain about twice as it was before (about 8-10% per day iso 4%). (Fenix-7)

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0 Minghiarura 1 month ago in reply to Emrergn

Where can I find fw 17.28 for the 7X? Thank you

0 Laurens 1 month ago in reply to Emrergn

It was finished without any issue, the SW version shows 17.28 from the settings menu. I have a normal Fenix 7, mine now draw's 1.35% per hour. I can retry to flash it over, but I don't expect anything to change. There is likely still a setting which is configured and stay's after downgrade. It's really sad that a company as Garmin cannot figure out what is causing this issue, I allowed them already to investigate my complete profile etc but without success. They should know which options can cause high drainage and monitor these value's. I would be willing to support them and install updates or a specific debug app to monitor parameters if they cannot reproduce the issue in their development team.

0 Laurens 1 month ago in reply to Minghiarura

You can find the 17.28 backdate firmware in the bottom of this post, it is zipped together with revision 18.09: forums.garmin.com/.../beta-version-18-10---check-for-updates-only

0 Pieter 1 month ago

Yesterday I installed the latest 19.38 patch version and my first opinion is that the battery usage is back to normal. I will keep a close look on it.

0 Minghiarura 1 month ago in reply to Laurens

Thank you Laurens. Does it apply even if I am not enrolled in the "tester" program?

0 Laurens 1 month ago in reply to Minghiarura

I'm also not enrolled in that program. It's just moving the 2 files in the 17.28 folder to the Garmin folder like explained somewhere. After unplugging the USB the watch will show the update question

0 Minghiarura 1 month ago in reply to Laurens

Laurens, I installed 17.28. As soon as I set up the device, the consumption was high. I turned the device off, waited a few minutes and turned it on. The consumption is negligible. I have never had them so low. Also it seems that the altimeter is stable. With fw 19.38 the values were off. So far I am satisfied although I notice that the recommended workouts have changed

0 3144931 1 month ago

Just wanted to weigh in a note that my brand new Fenix 7X Pro SS was draining about 8-9% daily, which had me browsing here for answers to the excess battery drain. I found a suggestion to update the Maps via Garmin Express on my desktop and it appears that the issue (for now) has resolved itself. I'm running 19.38 as well.

0 3026192 1 month ago

I am on 17.28 and wonder if you notice a drainage with the last 19.41 firmware?